A recent study reveals that children tend to trust robots more than humans, preferring them as teachers and confidants. This research, conducted on 111 children aged between 3 and 6, was published in the magazine Computers in Human Behavior and involves the participation of an international research group led by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Children’s trust in robots
To determine which source of information is considered most reliable by childrenthe researchers showed them videos in which people and robots labeled objects with correct or incorrect names. When robots and humans appeared equally trustworthy, children tended to turn to these machines to ask for the names of unfamiliar objects, accepting their answers as correct.
THE children they also said they preferred automatons as teachers, friends, or confidants
The perception of errors is interesting: if a person makes a mistake, children think he does it on purposewhile they do not have the same thoughts about these intelligent machines judged to be unreliable.
Children’s age influences their relationship with androids. Older children tend to trust humans a little more, but only when robots prove less reliable. With equal reliability, robots continue to be preferred.
“What makes robots preferable is still an open question”
the researchers conclude.
This study delivers important ideas in the educational field and scholastic, suggesting new perspectives for the integration of these machines in education and support children.
Do you trust them or a person more to learn something new?
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